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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

The PCP I see refuses to allow for a collaborative relationship. She is the "Doctor" and I am the unwashed heathen.

Despite my research into my situations.

The Specualisr I see is the same way. And yes, they are both on the Insurance gravy train. They both look down on me for not accepting the "innoculations" to improve my immunization to CV19 which I already had. Looking hard to dump them.

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

You do well educating yourself. As for your doctor(s) what I (will try to) do is open the topic with my doctor. If she is not receptive, that's her choice. To the extent I'm able, I will try to inform the willing but converting the willfully ignorant isn't within my power. And I won't waste my time. You may be stuck with your current MDs. Even so, perhaps you can still use them, within their limits? Or do you have the option to seek other, possibly more receptive doctors?

Re his handle, I speculate it's a pun on the famous cartoon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pep%C3%A9_Le_Pew

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Goeff's avatar

"You do well educating yourself."

In fact, that's the only way to become educated and it's a lifelong, active process. One cannot be educated but only trained or schooled. Education is not a passive process.

Schools provide training only; they cannot and do not educate anyone despite the rhetoric to the contrary. A tragic outcome of schooling is that it produces people who fancy themselves as educated when the opposite is true. Schooling is only a part of becoming educated and a relatively small one at that.

Not to spam this thread, but Ben Franklin's "Silence Dogood" editorial sums it up nicely. And it quite entertaining as well, far surpassing anything one'd see on the boob tube!

https://franklinpapers.org/framedVolumes.jsp

Here's another (one source of many).

A. J. Nock, The Theory of Education in the United States

https://mises.org/library/theory-education-united-states-0

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Goeff's avatar

Love yer handle and get the"-que" and the "Lepew," but I'm lost on the "Leskun." Would love to know!

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

From the John Lenon school of poetic license.

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